Why do couples cut wedding cake? what is the signifigance?

i really have never tasted a wedding cake i liked and i was thinking of nixing it altogether and doing ';wedding ice cream'; instead (and saving a ton of money in the process!!) but i want to understand the signifigance first ... especially since everyone i have talked to seems to think its terrible to cut out the cake but they cant tell me why.Why do couples cut wedding cake? what is the signifigance?
Ok......interesting trivia: originally, the wedding cake was not eaten by but thrown at the bride! (hence the smooshing it in each others face ';tradition';)It developed as one of the many fertility traditions surrounding a wedding. Luckily this custom evolved into actually eating the cake. Now it symbolizes feeding each other, taking care of each other.....


Now, my opinion? Have what ever you want.....I helped plan a wedding where they didn't want cake so they did the Chocolate fountain instead. It looks fancy and cake like and the guests LOVED it. For those die hard cake lovers, there were small squares of pound cake to dip in the chocolate. For the ice cream lovers, there were small melon ball size ice cream bits that were able to be dipped thru the chocolate!! Cream puffs, bananas, pretzels (my favorite), rice krispie treats.........yum, yum, yum!!!


The nice thing about going with a rental company tho is that they send attendants and they set up and clean up!!! (Important on a wedding day!!)...............


Basically the sky's the limit!! Best wishes...................Why do couples cut wedding cake? what is the signifigance?
I didnt like too many cakes I tried either, but I made a vanilla cake for my sister's birthday, and that was one of the best cakes I've ever had. Vanilla instead of white. It had a better flavor.





But anyways, If you dont want cake, you could do an icecream cake! Walmart makes them. I don't think it would be all too expensive to do it that way, but you'd need a freezer to keep it in at the reception, and that part would kind of suck. But if you did just ice cream anyways, you'd still need a place for that to be. so I guess that wouldnt make much difference. I dont suggest an ice cream bar if you're getting married in the cold months though. Too cold for that stuff, but In the summer, Ice cream bars are great ideas.
You have to cut it to eat it...just like the birthday person gets to cut the first slice. If you don't want to do cake, by all means don't. Nothing is traditional anymore and you have to do what is right for you. I know people who have done cupcakes, cookies, pie, and other things instead of cake. My FI and I don't like cake at all and it wasn't for the fact that I found one that I really liked, I probably wouldn't have on either. If you like icecream...do it! It would be very unique.
We didn't have a wedding cake for show, but had traditional Ukrainian wedding breads (korovai) on display instead - they were three tiers of braided bread, decorated in our colours. Of course, we had a variety of great desserts available both after the dinner and the midnight lunch. At donations, we did give out wrapped traditional fruitcake, for the guests to put under their pillows to dream on... - that's a very old tradition in our family that we use, and I liked the idea of...


Do as you please - how about having a sundae bar?
I've never understood the point either..something about first meal together and the cake cutter being traditionally handed down from an older relative to signify they are now adults and have their own household.
cutting wedding cake together represents a bondness. the bond that you share on that very day. the day of your marriage. it may not seem like it, but its very meaningful.
It's symbolic of their first shared meal...
every thing has a purpose and here it is:





A wedding cake is the traditional cake served to the guests at a wedding reception (in England, at a wedding breakfast) after a wedding. In modern western culture, it is usually a large cake, multi-layered or tiered, and heavily decorated with icing, occasionally over a layer of marzipan or fondant, topped with a small statue representing the couple. Other common motifs include doves, gold rings and horseshoes, the latter symbolising good luck. Achieving a dense, strong cake that can support the decorations while remaining edible can be considered the epitome of the baker's art and skill.





Tradition generally requires that the first cut of the cake be performed by bride and groom together, often with a ceremonial knife or even a sword. An older, archaic tradition had the bride serve all portions to the groom's family as a symbolic transfer of her household labor from her family to the groom's family.





Tradition may also dictate that the bride and groom feed the first bites of this cake to each other. Again, this may symbolize the new family unit formed and the replacement of the old parent-child union.





Other guests may then partake of the cake, portions may be taken home or shipped to people who missed the festivities. (An old tradition held that if a bridesmaid slept with a piece of wedding cake beneath her pillow she might dream of her future husband.)





A portion may be stored, and eaten by the couple at their first wedding anniversary, or at the christening of their first child. The cake may be frozen for this purpose; the top tier of the cake might consist of fruitcake, which could be stored for a great length of time.





But if you don't like cake don't do it =)
Yup Yup Yup. There really is no signifigance in todays culture about the cake cutting. Its just a habit and same as giving first piece to the birthday boy/girl. More than anything else I think it is a way to keep guests from digging into the cake to early, sort of a ';ok now you can eat it'; sort of thing. If you are worried about missing out on symbolism I say have a small icecream cake made for the two of you to cut and have your sundae bar set up afterwards. They make pretty icecream cakes at Dairy Queen or almost any grocery store.





Don't sweat it honey, cutting cake and shoving it in you hubbys face or lack thereof has never been listed as a reason for divorce in any papers I've read. Keep it true to your personality and have a awesome day.
I think you should whatever you want. However, I found an excellent baker for my cake and it was delicious.